Well if your a ebay shopper then you know the best time to place a bid is seconds before it closes. Posting a bid early only can possibly start a bidding war and the price only goes up and up and up. Nothing is worse also if the auction you really want ends at like 3am. What do you do in that case? Do you bid early or do you set the alarm clock to get up and bid?

Ever be in the market for something you just know will turn up on craigslist for a decent price sooner or later, but forget to search daily? Or you give up quickly and pay more than necessary because you don't check it daily?

I found this site that claims to alert you when your favorite site (AKA GeekDrop) is down and you don't want to continue to hit refresh for an indefinite amount of time. You can have it alert you via text message, email or Twitter. I haven't gotten to try it yet, but I'm posting for everyone to check it out. Report back if you get to give it a whirl!

Microsoft has a free "Password Checker" that tests the strength of your passwords. I think most of us know the general rules for a good non-hackable password... letters, numbers and characters, no short passwords, not your cat or kid's name, etc... but this little tool will help you out even more. Or you could just try playing with it for fun.
Now go forth and be safe!

Ever want to send someone a youtube video link where you only want them to see a specific part and not the whole thing?

Here's how:

Add the following hash to the end of the link: "#t=1m20s" where "m" = the minutes and "s" = the seconds.
For example heres a video that is 1 minute and 45 seconds long, I only want to show the part that begins at 1 minute and 19 seconds till the end.

Full video link looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7jEVkbyBd4

So have you ever heard a computer geek guru talk in tech terms that had you going "huh what is he/she saying" but you don't want to look like a fool and ask what those letters stand for? Well here is a quick referance to what they mean. Because there is so many I cant really go into what they mean just what they stand for (google baby google). So here is my list.......

--- A ---
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit

This is more for those who design and promote websites Google is offering an number of different seminars around the country and some out of the country. I've been to some of their seminars in the past and they are well worth it. Here are some of the seminars.....

Ok, so i reallly have no use for a landline phone. I keep one only to keep my internet. Is there a way to get internet without keeping a phone line? I assume I could go with cable, but um... i barely have that either (too poor) any suggestions?